1) After Sarkozy's historic victory in France, the president-elect said that America can "count on France as a friend" -- bold words, indeed! This prompted Bill O'Reilly to lift his boycott of France. I agree with Bill, though I'm perhaps a bit more *cautiously* optimistic (yet optimistic nonetheless).

(Denis Boyles takes several lessons from ( Read more... )

Today is a fast day in the Jewish calendar. Here's why:

On the 10th of Tevet of the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. Thirty months later -- on Tammuz 9, 3338 -- the city walls were breached, and on Av 9th of that year, the Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jewish people ( Read more... )